Entertainment & Sports
Feb. 18, 2017
High-profile dilemma: fight or settle?
Representing celebrity clients in the new "clickbait" era: a cautionary tale for defendants (and their lawyers). By Mathew Rosengart
Mathew S. Rosengart
Partner
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Commercial Litigation, Media & Entertainment Litigation
1840 Century Park E Ste 1900
Los Angeles , CA 90067-2121
Phone: (310) 586-3889
Email: rosengartm@gtlaw.com
Boston Coll Law School
Mathew S. Rosengart is a litigation partner at the global law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP. A former federal prosecutor who received the Justice Department's Special Achievement Award, among other accolades, Mathew was named 2024's Entertainment Litigator of the Year by Benchmark Litigation, a media and entertainment MVP by Law360, one of the Top 200 lawyers in the nation by Forbes, and a Sports & Entertainment and General Litigation Trailblazer by The National Law Journal, and a 2024 Daily Journal Top 100 lawyer. He has also perennially been recognized as one of the nation's leading media and entertainment litigators by both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter.
According to conventional wisdom, as a result of their fame (and presumed fortune), celebrities receive preferential treatment in court, as well as in the court of "public opinion." In reality, despite recent anomalies that led TMZ's Harvey Levin to coin the phrase "celebrity justice," nothing could be further from the truth. Targeting celebrities or high-profile individuals (or corporations) is nothing new in the governmental ...
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